Anticreeper for rails.



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ANTICBEEPER FOR RAILS.

Specification of Letters Patezrrt..

Patented .rune e, 190s.

Application mea August 3i, 1907. seria No. 390,944.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'I known that I, ADoLPnUs BoNz citizen of the United States, residing in i* liladelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented. certain Improvements in Anticreepers for Rails, ofwhich the following is a specification. Y

My invention relates to certain improve-- ments "in nieans for preventing longitudinal x creeping of railway rails due to their tendency to move under vthe action of passing trains, or to expansion and contraction. y

The ob]ect,of my invention is to provide a `simple and effective device for preventingA creeping of the rails without directly attaching the rail to a tie or ties but indirectly th-rough a member,`wliich acts both as a strut and tension member held to 'the rail by a clamp situated midway between two ties. This object I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l, is a side view of a rail showing myv improved anti-creeping device in position; Fig. 2, is a plan view; Fig. 3, is a-transverse section on the line 3-3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, is a erspective view of part of the device detac ed. l

A is the rail, B, B are the ties; the rail has the usual head a and base-flange b. Clamped to the base flange, in the resent instance between two ties B, B, is a Block C, which is preferably serrated at c so as to bite into the edge ofthe flange of the `rail and is confined thereto by a bolt D turned up at one end d to embrace the flange of the rail opposite to that embraced by the block C, and a bolt passes through an opening in the block and through an opening ein the bar EV and is confined vthereto bya nut d mounted on the threaded ortion of the bolt, as illustrated clearly in ig. 3.

The bar E is preferably made as illustrated in Fig. 4, being formed from a at blank bent as shownat'e, e, so that the central portion. E is at riglit'angles to the end portions E2.

The bar can be of any width and thickness o, a desired, preferably a'bout "2%,- inches wide and of` an inch thick.

The bar E `is firmly secured to the ties by screw bolts or. spikes f, so as to rigidly hold the bar in' osition. I have shownv a screw bolt at eacli end of the bar, but it willbe understood that two vor more bolts may be used if desired.

The device is preferably attached at or near the middle of each rail in order to secure 'equal distances between'rail ends when niotion occurs from changes in temperature and rolling loads and each endof the `bar E is securely fastened to a tie. y

One-device as described above is sufficient to securely anchor each rail.

, By the above described arrangement I ain enabled to vmake a very economical and readily applied anti-creepingdevicefor rail.- road'rails which will act as a strut and tension member, no matter in which direction the rail has a tendency to creep. l This device does not interfere withA the tarnping of the roadbed and is readily applied or detached when desired.

I claiin':- The combination in an anti-creeping device for railway rails, of a rail, two ties, a barV bent to form a central vertical section and horizontal end sections, a block engaging one base ange of the rail between the ties, a hooked bolt engaging the other base flange of the rail and passing through the block and through an opening 'in the vertical portion of the bar, and means for securing the bar to the ties, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPHUS BONZANO.

Witnesses'.

L.` H. MARVEL, H. A. BoNzANo. 

